Show Ogden Standard-Examine- Sunday September 23 1984 r 13A National uiv Off beat Arrested transient heir to fortune SANTA ROSA Calif (AP) — wino who couldn’t afford $50 bail after being arrested for panhandling and public drunkenness was as stunned as anybody to learn that he may be heir to millions of dolA self-describ- ed lars “I figured I’d get a check for $20” said Victor Fimia 40 whose trembling hands missing tooth and stubbly beard made him an unlikely-lookin- g millionI aire “I thought was the black sheep and here my father left me DETROIT (AP) — The United Auto Workers faces a major confrontation with Ford Motor Co where the union bargains next because its tentative contract with General Motors Corp may be too expensive for the No 2 automaker experts said Saturday “For Ford the GM contract is a real problem” said David Bloom an automotive industry analyst for First Boston In addition GM dominates the market for large and luxury cars which carry profits big enough to absorb the economic costs of the contract The contract with GM would pay billions of dollars in wage and pension boosts While Ford is currently making record profits it isn’t nearly as big or rich as GM and may not be able to afford such a pact in a few years Bloo said has put the UAW on notice that it wants a contract of its own He has said Ford won’t “walk in lockstep” with any other Corp in New York three-ye- ar A hefty share 80000 striking GM employees back to work UAW President Owen Bieber set his sights on matching it across town “We’ll take this to Ford” Bieber declared while also saying he would try for an early reopening of the union’s Chrysler Corp contract which doesn’t expire for another year Bieber’s statements are a part of what is known as pattern bargaining — targeting one company for a strike and after getting a contract matching its most important provisions at the other companies of Ford’s profits come from big cars too But it has invested a larger portion of its capital in smaller cars which carry less profit and are more vulnerable to Japanese competition Peter Pestillo Ford’s chief bargainer The UAW refined the practice in the 1950s But America dominated its own car market then company But after the tentative GM pact was reached early Friday sending more than Shop all ZCMI stores tomorrow September 24 from 9 am to 9 for Ford With strong import competition and many differences between the operations of the US companies many Detroit auto executives believe pattern bargaining no‘ longer is justified The union has allowed two smaller automakers American Motors Corp and Volkswagen of America Inc to fashion contracts apart from the Big Three and Chrysler received special contract treatment when that company teetered on the edge of bankruptcy But the UAW has vowed that pattern contracts can still work now that GM Ford and Chrysler are again making record profits pm something” Fimia who said he has spent 23 years on the streets was arrested Friday in a downtown Santa Rosa park Through a national computer check police learned he had been reported missing from San Jose years ago A police report said Fimia’s father who died five years ago left his son “several million” dollars However a man who said he was Fimia’s brother-in-lalater placed the inheritance at much less — “$30000 to $40000” Fimia spent Friday night in the Sonoma County Jail in Santa Rosa 60 miles north of San Francisco He is scheduled to be arraigned Monday If the promised millions materialize Fimia said he plans to “go down to the liquor store to finish my bottle of wine” 20 sale-pric- ed off already low and sterling pieces w M 7 takes detention daughter’s place Mom : in ' ALBUQUERQUE NM (AP) — Susan Duran figured it wasn’t J i fair for Sandia High School to discipline her daughter when she didn’t call the girl’s illness in on time so she took the punishment herself — two days in detention hall From ! 8 am to 3 pm the imm 34- - businesswoman sat at a ll desk reading and eat- ing In keeping with the rules of “el toril” or the bullpen as the detention hall is known she wasn’t allowed to talk sleep or get up without permission The detention Thursday and Friday had been meted out to Mrs Duran’s teenage daughter Stephanie for being absent with- out permission But Mrs Duran said it was her own mistake that had caused the problem She argued that if the idea is to teach students responsibility then she should sit in the bullpen be- year-ol- d too-sma- ! ) ! ! cause she was responsible for phanie’s unexcused absence o WfPW m bjf Wabct At iHi Ste- - The school took her at her word C3) $189IChntyty fry Gorham I Stephanie said her mother has t “done some neat stuff for me be- fore but nothing this neat” ‘ Jailed grandma knits her sentence away 12712m HENNESSEY Okla (UPI) — grandmother who is president of her church’s altar society said she would stick by her principles and go to jail rather than pay a S 1 891 Bottvcupby Gorham A i ’ ' sion - I 1 ? ' Stribel 43 was convicted of driving a truckload of wheat through town at 49 mph in a 35- mph zone Given a choice of a $44 fine or nine days in jail she said she would take the the time behind bars because she was in-- ) nocent Spears said Stribel is a model prisoner “She’s reading and knitting” he said “She’s very nice We don’t have no problems with Save an extra 20 on already-reduce- d open stock place settings in over 125 active sterling silver patterns from Gorham Oneida Towle Reed & Barton Wallace Lunt International and prang 9 Rtfji $189 Strasbourg It 7j speeding ticket “It’s just the principle of the thing” Police Chief Roy Spears said Friday of Jean Stribel’s deci- - 151120 hr Gortum 151 ' ri 23QEE2EESKED a § KirkStieff her” : ' Silver Room (753) Special orders welcome on depleted stock during this sale Idaho burglar was hungry not greedy WALLACE Idaho (AP) — By the looks of things an intruder who entered a Wallace home this week was more hungry than tyfataraatboaf greedy i ' ! ’ Wallace Police Chief Rick Weetman said a Wallace resident who returned home in mid-after- noon Tuesday heard someone leaving his house through the grabbed intruder a package apparently of hotdogs from the freezer and put on a pot of water to cook them in he said The water was still boiling on 1 1 ‘ Enjoy your tableware purchase of $100 or more right away and pay as little as $10 a month with no finance charge if payments basement The person had entered the home by breaking out the window of a basement door Weet- man said Friday The ' PRESENT PERFECT PRICES the stove and the hotdogs were cooking when the resident reached the kitchen Weetman said are made as scheduled metmjmoMmn 14312 0 EVft I |